Kirk Herbstreit: You're actually pretty decent at announcing a football game. However, if you want to respected as an expert on the sport, you need to study the history of the game. When an icon retires, a good example of the proper way to pay due homage to one of the true innovators of the game is to follow the lead of what your colleague Chris Fowler did. I'm not talking about declaring '95 NU as the greatest ever. That's subjective. What isn't is the ingenuity of the Tom Osborne playbook. Any half-way informed coach or student of the game will rave about his blocking schemes alone. For good reason.
When it was your turn to talk about Osborne, you gave some lukewarm anecdote that wasn't insulting to TO or any Nebraska fan, or out of line, or anything like that. It really just made you look uninformed. It was diminishing to your reputation as far as being someone whose overall opinion is worth consideration. You call a pretty solid game, but that's going to be where it ends if you can't even offer some solid input on one of the truly elite minds to ever participate in the sport. Your take on Osborne was vapid, completely lacking in terms of giving legitimate credit to a truly revolutionary offensive mind in CFB, and painted you as someone who didn't really know what they were talking about. It was amateurish. Poorly done.
If you are passionate about CFB, you'd do well to honor those who've earned it. Last weekend you sounded like a self-proclaimed expert on physics who seemed to maybe know a little bit about Isaac Newton. Maybe.
You want to be taken seriously? Then take serious those who have impacted the sport to the greatest degree. Otherwise, your view on anything outside of calling a live game is meaningless.